Athena De Santi. Lawyer, Single mother, At least to the outside world that's what she is.
To the underworld she's La Regina Perduta (Hade's Queen) deadly, beautiful, an assassin who has never missed a target in her life, and Giovanni's Queen.
And not a second too soon for him.

She has lived a  shadowed life for far too long, to the world it appears that she is a confident loving mother ready to destroy anybody to save her little princess.

In truth she does have a daughter, a seven year old princess she must be the best mother she can be to protect this young innocent from her enemies.

Because a second with her has the potential of shattering him to a million tiny fragments.

However, he's about to find out she's not the easiest target to hit, or the type of woman who is easy to kill.

Especially not when she has secrets, and vengeance, of her own to redeem and a daughter to save.
She's all they fear.

And that is why he must tread very, very lightly.

Time is running out.

Fate holds all the cards now.

May God save those who dare to hurt her little girl.

HADE'S QUEEN (LA REGINA PERDUTA)

My head hurts, what is going on? Where am I? 


"Aunty Sel?" I say opening my eyes slowly, immediately the bright light hits my face and a sharp pain buzzes through my body. 


"Mama? What is going on?" I'm so confused, Why is my mama not answering? I just called her 5 minutes ago, there must be a mistake. 


"Mama?" I rub my eyes and sit up, my body is sore, I am extremely exhausted, I also feel a huge pain in my stomach. 


A man I don't recognize is in front of me, he looks scary. He has a lot of tattoos and a big bald head. The room looks like a princesses room. It's pretty. There's a big bed where I'm lying and a barbie castle. There's also a lot of pretty dresses in the closet. Is this all for me? 


"Who are you and where's my mama?" I ask him 


"Your 'mama' is the reason you are here little girl, wake up the boss wants to see you" he says 


He's very scary, but my mama said to never show fear because your enemies will use that against you. 


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